I'm a stellar spectroscopist/Galactic archaeologist trying to decipher the origin and evolution of the chemical elements and the Milky Way Galaxy. One of my current big-science projects is ESA's Galactic Surveyor Gaia (2013-2019, plus extensions). Gaia is expected to measure the 3D positions and space motions of more than 1,000,000,000 (> 1 billion!) stars in the Galaxy.

Two, more down-to-Earth, projects I help to make happen are the Gaia-ESO Survey, a 300-night 100,000-star survey at the Very Large Telescope (2012-2017), and 4MOST, a multi-object spectrograph to be put on the VISTA 4m telescope (first light in 2021). The latter will take spectra of between 10 and 20 million stars.

With more than 20 million SEK in PI funding, I have been quite successful in raising money for me and my group. Furthermore, I am Co-I on a Wallenberg grant totalling 34 MSEK (PI Sofia Feltzing, Lund University; 2014-2018).